Is it possible that you are going to delete all of your posts again First-Things-First? You can't delete some posts like the ones at http://www.paragoulddailypress.com/articles/2012/08/05/local_news/doc501... and you were followed by Danny B of Elan School in Poland, Maine online stalking fame as LisaMarie. Are you really doing a good service to the cult of Alcoholics Anonymous by making posts, stirring up trouble and then deleting them and bragging about it?
Not very professional or moral of you First-Things-First and it is typical of the narcissistic members of Alcoholics Anonymous recruited from jails and prisons.
"Tradition 10 - Alcoholics Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence the AA name ought never be drawn into public controversy." Please follow orders from the Interchurch Center if you are an AA member and don't comment.
Not only are you being childish First-Things-First, you are being very deceptive and indicative of members of the AA faith in their narcissistic attitudes. YOU are part of the PROBLEM, NOT the solution.
published by First-Things-First on Sun, 08/05/2012 - 08:19
The record holder for comments on a blog here in 2012 is a blog on March 3; it had 558 comments. The topic was about all the trolls on this site, specifically naming two people. People that merely shared different views from what this site preaches. As such, they were targeted and gleefully hated on.
Second biggest in 2012? May 15, it was a very negative anti-A.A. blog. Again, hate mongers gathered in glee. Anybody opposing that view . . . targeted and hated on. Totaled 555 comments.
3rd was a blog I posted, July 7. Basically pointing out the fallacious anti filled arguments people had against A.A. I had just heard about this site a couple of days prior. Again, people gathered with gleeful hate. 446 comments. Since then the largest commented blog (209 comments) is about how I deleted my comments; much name calling, hate spewing, etc. towards me. I quickly realized that there is no logic here, merely A.A. hate.
I came here because I was hoping to receive positive alternative view(s). I understand A.A. is not perfect nor, is it for everybody. I say to each their own, whatever can keep you happy and sober. However, the major view here is not so open. It is merely negative anti-A.A. Anything which supports any anti-A.A. view keeps the cogs on this site greased and going. Anything in contradiction is viewed as cancer with blinded and unquestioned prejudice, regardless of the logic; and then there's the childish name calling: steppers, Wilsonites, the cult, etc.
Most have vowed to ignore me now. Which has made my visits here much more pleasant. I was seriously considering not even visiting; but it does contain an occasional good alternative view and much entertainment from the senseless logic, more than anything.
Just a little informative. Have a nice day : )
Just quit posting, you are a very untrustworthy poster and very reminiscent of the AA members recruited from jails and prison in your action.
"Tradition 10 - Alcoholics Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence the AA name ought never be drawn into public controversy." Please follow orders from the Interchurch Center if you are an AA member and don't comment.
I don't have to go out in search of "prospects" to convert to the pagan spiritualist faith of Bill Wilson. It would appear that the Orange Papers Forum uses "attraction, not promotion", unlike the cult of Alcoholics Anonymous. I will make a deal with you, if you go away and quit stalking the members of this forum, I won't be like an AA member and start stalking you to make you come back.
"Tradition 10 - Alcoholics Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence the AA name ought never be drawn into public controversy." Please follow orders from the Interchurch Center if you are an AA member and don't comment.
JR, you did it the month I was here when you were angry that I said that AA doesn't break up families. You've been nonstop on me since then. You were thrilled to be known as a stalker and often said how you were just following Bill W. when he said to find out all you can about your man. That's a rape of his intent right there.
Everyone knows that I used to post on craigslist forums. That's no secret.
The idea of gathering like minded people to go over there and give them Hell is a good idea, Although it never happened as you say. By the way... Who made this new rule that it's not okay to invite some friends to support a good cause?
AA is a religious cult dressed up to look like a treatment for alcoholism.
Instead of denying it, why didn't you say these things then? Instead, you wanted to call me a liar when you did post that link, and that is right where I found you. Not "used to", either. You were currently posting there despite the requests of THOSE regulars for you to go. If you haven't been back since last week, that would be new to me.
So what was your real problem? And if there is nothing wrong with it, why are Vicky, McF and yourself upset about it? These things were on public forums, so it beats the hell out of me. You don't seem to mind if it is about someone else, even exploiting a sick person for effect, but you cared about it for yourself.
Yes, it happened, Gunth. I am not computer literate enough to find you on some forum in Rhode Island without your direction to it.
You purposely went on ANOTHER ANTI AA website and looked at people's posts's. Then you bring it here, I really believe Clara you are a legend in your own lunch time.
are international. If you've posted in the Rhode Island forum then you have posted "from" Rhode Island and to the entire world. So you happened to stumble across my posts in the craigslist forums. What's the big deal? I use a Gunthar handle over there also, so it would be easy to spot me. Who cares?
The facts are these.
1. You've made a false allegation with no evidence to back it up.
2. You have a strange obsession with this forum.
3. I made a deal with you and there is no way that you'll ever take it because you can't stop.
AA is a religious cult dressed up to look like a treatment for alcoholism.
Yes, you do post under a Gunthar handle over there, but I would never have looked on Craigslist forum at all for a recovery group without your link. It was removed after I posted about it here on OPF. Others remembered seeing it.
No obsession. I blog in a number of venues. But if I did, what of it?
No. We never made a deal. I doubt highly you have the ability to not run around to forums badmouthing AA.
Let me ask you this... Why would anyone who supposedly supports AA principles frequent an AA critical forum? I wonder what it is that drives you. Is it that you feel AA needs a good defender?
AA is a religious cult dressed up to look like a treatment for alcoholism.
Vicky, I think you enjoy very much talking to me or you wouldn't seek me out for it. There is a choice there.
I cannot believe the amount of attention people would devote to someone they hated. Why let someone live in your head and devote the time to her that you (anyone) do? Live and let live is a great slogan, and I didn't even find it in AA.
Clara you repeatedly rap live & let live yet you come to this forum daily & try your best not to allow others to be anti aa. You do not allow this site to be about the dangers & truthful exposures regarding aa's miserable failure rates & the many people harmed by the cult. Is there every a moment or second of truthful clarity regarding self? Is there every even a second when you are not self deceptive & truthfully admit to yourself that you are a hypocrite & just do not practice what you preach? You appear over & over to be self absorbed but not self aware not in the slightest. Just another lost stepper lying to self & others. Its good that your here one & the same with the narcissist wilson. Its a daily reminder to keep not going back & to chose sanity & the real world instead!
Gunthar always when the heat is on Clara & other stepper trolls here are well known for not answering. Same as in the cult! But its good they are here behaving as one & the same lost soul brain washed steppers who can't stop trying to hurt & control others for the cult! Losers.
Clara, you definitely have a problem with stalking people online. Why don't you do something else? Are you going to the HUGE EVENT AND SIDEWALK SALE! CASA VIDA SALE... SATURDAY AUGUST 11, 2012 at 3501 Hueco St. , El Paso, TX 79903? The event is 8 am to 2 pm. FREE HOT DOGS!...after 11 am., All Items & Clothes MUST GO... Antique Furniture/Glassware & Utensils/Name Brand Shirts $1.00/Name Brand Jeans $2.00, Large Selection of Books $.25-$2.00 and it is being advertized by the El Paso Intergroup! http://www.aaelpaso.org/Events%20&%20Information.html
You can probably find tons of cheap AA books that all of the court mandated prospects gave away after they went to the required cult AA meetings, maybe even in Spanish! Then you can quit stalking online and go after the real thing in the rooms, meeting places, grocery stores, free clinics, probation and parole boards and you will have "Big Books" as bait!
"Tradition 10 - Alcoholics Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence the AA name ought never be drawn into public controversy." Please follow orders from the Interchurch Center if you are an AA member and don't comment.
Basically, I am not the kind of person who just believes everything I hear or read. The reason I "keep coming back" HERE is because a lot of what I read confirms the BS I have either experienced or heard about (from complaining groupies) while I was still in the program.
"There must be a reason for that".
It must be that 'Aha!' moment when it all comes together and makes sense. Like when the economy crashed in 08. Before that you couldn't figure out how house prices could possibly be that high. Who could afford them? Aha! You see all the foreclosure signs and it all makes sense again.
I still love to keep up with the letters, and it amazes me when reading a deluded stepper letter you hear so much propaganda and superstition, or how angry or resentful Orange must be. The response Orange gives usually makes so much more sense, and it matches my experience with what AA 'REALLY' is.
And lets face it, even our trolls can't get away from here and just leave us be. They all claim how innocent they were coming here to find "other ways", but all they found is "hate". Yet none of them leave. They belong here with us, far, far away from any AA group. They are now ours, forever an example of being a 'lost soul'.
"You'll pay to know what you really think". - J.R. Bob Dobbs
I didn't come here looking for "another way". I had heard about the OPF and wanted to read it for myself. It was painted as a toxic environment - not just to AA but to critical thinking and independence.
It did not disappoint.
“The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Letters to a Young Contrarian
Although the beckets statement of critical thinking and independence is a jewel, there have been bigger nuggets of larger value contributd by the judge.
becket is there someone in your life holding a gun to your head to come to this forum daily? Why are you on this forum many times each day? Isn't this site for the purpose of deprogramming from aa brain washing? And for the purpose of avoiding aa's ineffectiveness & brain washing? I wonder if you could explain logically why you continue to participate daily on this forum if you consider it a toxic environment without critical thinking & independence? You have so many options & alternatives but you continue to chose this forum & try to control the members with the aa tactics of belittling their character defects & attacking anyone personally with a different opinion than yours regarding aa. So simple question if you consider this forum toxic & without critical thinking or independence why do you post on it daily & why do you read other members posts daily & then attack, criticize & belittle daily? Why don't you join a book club or take a writing course or join a garden club etc. etc., etc.? You have indicated many times that you consider your intelligence to be superior but here you are day after day with nothing better to do than attempt to control members on a internet forum. I already know that Mensa is not an option for you to join but isn't there some other type of social interaction for you that isn't toxic to you? As you well know I do not follow wilson's unqualified & anecdotal psycho babble but you do & aren't you adhering to his unqualified & illogical definition of "insanity" & repeating the same behavior & expecting a different result by participating on this forum daily? I know you won't respond to my questions & that's okay I'm used to steppers & I rejected & fled them but here you are on this forum daily. But that's okay too its good for deprogramming & for reenforcing that rejecting & fleeing the cult is a sane, healthy & good thing!
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First-Things-First (not verified)
Thu, 09/06/2012 - 03:56
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live_free_or_die
Mon, 08/06/2012 - 14:31
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Is it possible that your perception is skewed.
FTF, you are a member of Alcoholics Anonymous.
Is it possible that your perception is skewed?
Alcoholics Anonymous: MyNotGodHasItCovered®
http://www.expaa.org/
http://bereanresearch.com/
http://badrecovery.blogspot.com/
NOT AA:
Rational Recovery, SOS, HAMS
http://alcoholabusesolutions.com/
First-Things-First (not verified)
Thu, 09/06/2012 - 03:57
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live_free_or_die
Tue, 08/07/2012 - 04:56
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Is it possible that your perception is skewed?
Simple closed question.
Alcoholics Anonymous: MyNotGodHasItCovered®
http://www.expaa.org/
http://bereanresearch.com/
http://badrecovery.blogspot.com/
NOT AA:
Rational Recovery, SOS, HAMS
http://alcoholabusesolutions.com/
First-Things-First (not verified)
Thu, 09/06/2012 - 03:57
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JR Harris
Tue, 08/07/2012 - 11:01
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Is it possible that you are going to delete all of your posts?
Is it possible that you are going to delete all of your posts again First-Things-First? You can't delete some posts like the ones at http://www.paragoulddailypress.com/articles/2012/08/05/local_news/doc501... and you were followed by Danny B of Elan School in Poland, Maine online stalking fame as LisaMarie. Are you really doing a good service to the cult of Alcoholics Anonymous by making posts, stirring up trouble and then deleting them and bragging about it?
Not very professional or moral of you First-Things-First and it is typical of the narcissistic members of Alcoholics Anonymous recruited from jails and prisons.
First Things First Deleted All Its Posts - Wed, 07/11/2012 - 212 comments
http://www.orange-papers.org/forum/node/1893
"Tradition 10 - Alcoholics Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence the AA name ought never be drawn into public controversy." Please follow orders from the Interchurch Center if you are an AA member and don't comment.
First-Things-First (not verified)
Thu, 09/06/2012 - 03:57
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JR Harris
Tue, 08/07/2012 - 14:07
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So to do that you delete all your posts and brag about it?
Not only are you being childish First-Things-First, you are being very deceptive and indicative of members of the AA faith in their narcissistic attitudes. YOU are part of the PROBLEM, NOT the solution.
Just quit posting, you are a very untrustworthy poster and very reminiscent of the AA members recruited from jails and prison in your action.
"First Things First Deleted All Its Posts" - http://www.orange-papers.org/forum/node/1893
"Tradition 10 - Alcoholics Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence the AA name ought never be drawn into public controversy." Please follow orders from the Interchurch Center if you are an AA member and don't comment.
Gunthar2000
Tue, 08/07/2012 - 14:29
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I agree JR.
I just ignore FTF. There is no point in me wasting my time with someone who is going to delete all of his posts.
AA is a religious cult dressed up to look like a treatment for alcoholism.
Gunthar2000
http://www.expaa.org/
First-Things-First (not verified)
Thu, 09/06/2012 - 03:57
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Clara
Tue, 08/07/2012 - 14:09
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Uh oh, JR. Why are you
Uh oh, JR. Why are you posting someone's posts here from another forum?
Remember Christopher Stevens when you vote.
JR Harris
Tue, 08/07/2012 - 14:29
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Why not? I don't go by Bill WIlson rules of stalking like you
I don't have to go out in search of "prospects" to convert to the pagan spiritualist faith of Bill Wilson. It would appear that the Orange Papers Forum uses "attraction, not promotion", unlike the cult of Alcoholics Anonymous. I will make a deal with you, if you go away and quit stalking the members of this forum, I won't be like an AA member and start stalking you to make you come back.
"Tradition 10 - Alcoholics Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence the AA name ought never be drawn into public controversy." Please follow orders from the Interchurch Center if you are an AA member and don't comment.
Clara
Tue, 08/07/2012 - 14:40
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JR, you did it the month I
JR, you did it the month I was here when you were angry that I said that AA doesn't break up families. You've been nonstop on me since then. You were thrilled to be known as a stalker and often said how you were just following Bill W. when he said to find out all you can about your man. That's a rape of his intent right there.
Remember Christopher Stevens when you vote.
Gunthar2000
Tue, 08/07/2012 - 14:31
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Is there some new rule...
that says you can't post something from another forum?
Who made this rule?
Does Orange know about this?
AA is a religious cult dressed up to look like a treatment for alcoholism.
Gunthar2000
http://www.expaa.org/
Clara
Tue, 08/07/2012 - 14:38
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Apparently you all thought
Apparently you all thought there was, Gunthar, when I asked you about the call to arms to the craiglist forum.
Remember Christopher Stevens when you vote.
Gunthar2000
Tue, 08/07/2012 - 14:48
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But that never happened Clara.
Everyone knows that I used to post on craigslist forums. That's no secret.
The idea of gathering like minded people to go over there and give them Hell is a good idea, Although it never happened as you say. By the way... Who made this new rule that it's not okay to invite some friends to support a good cause?
AA is a religious cult dressed up to look like a treatment for alcoholism.
Gunthar2000
http://www.expaa.org/
Clara
Tue, 08/07/2012 - 15:02
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Instead of denying it, why
Instead of denying it, why didn't you say these things then? Instead, you wanted to call me a liar when you did post that link, and that is right where I found you. Not "used to", either. You were currently posting there despite the requests of THOSE regulars for you to go. If you haven't been back since last week, that would be new to me.
So what was your real problem? And if there is nothing wrong with it, why are Vicky, McF and yourself upset about it? These things were on public forums, so it beats the hell out of me. You don't seem to mind if it is about someone else, even exploiting a sick person for effect, but you cared about it for yourself.
Yes, it happened, Gunth. I am not computer literate enough to find you on some forum in Rhode Island without your direction to it.
Remember Christopher Stevens when you vote.
Vicky345uk
Tue, 08/07/2012 - 15:05
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Give me a break
You purposely went on ANOTHER ANTI AA website and looked at people's posts's. Then you bring it here, I really believe Clara you are a legend in your own lunch time.
Clara
Tue, 08/07/2012 - 15:10
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Again, so what? As Gunthar
Again, so what? As Gunthar says, there is no rule about it. It's a public site.
If you mind so much, perhaps you should have extended that toward others, think?
Remember Christopher Stevens when you vote.
Conan
Tue, 08/07/2012 - 15:12
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Unbelievable
First post I look at this afternoon :-
"If you mind so much, perhaps you should have extended that toward others, think?"
WTF does that mean Clara? It's not in English.
Danny is currently "Rachel" - watch out folks, he's learned how to use a spell checker...lol
Clara
Tue, 08/07/2012 - 15:28
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I am sure if you read the
I am sure if you read the entire post instead of just reaching for a sentence, it will make sense to you.
G'Day, Conan.
Remember Christopher Stevens when you vote.
Gunthar2000
Tue, 08/07/2012 - 15:11
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craigslist recovery forums...
are international. If you've posted in the Rhode Island forum then you have posted "from" Rhode Island and to the entire world. So you happened to stumble across my posts in the craigslist forums. What's the big deal? I use a Gunthar handle over there also, so it would be easy to spot me. Who cares?
The facts are these.
1. You've made a false allegation with no evidence to back it up.
2. You have a strange obsession with this forum.
3. I made a deal with you and there is no way that you'll ever take it because you can't stop.
AA is a religious cult dressed up to look like a treatment for alcoholism.
Gunthar2000
http://www.expaa.org/
Clara
Tue, 08/07/2012 - 15:26
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Yes, you do post under a
Yes, you do post under a Gunthar handle over there, but I would never have looked on Craigslist forum at all for a recovery group without your link. It was removed after I posted about it here on OPF. Others remembered seeing it.
No obsession. I blog in a number of venues. But if I did, what of it?
No. We never made a deal. I doubt highly you have the ability to not run around to forums badmouthing AA.
Remember Christopher Stevens when you vote.
Gunthar2000
Tue, 08/07/2012 - 15:34
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You Can't Do It!
LMFAO! You cannot stay away from here.
Let me ask you this... Why would anyone who supposedly supports AA principles frequent an AA critical forum? I wonder what it is that drives you. Is it that you feel AA needs a good defender?
AA is a religious cult dressed up to look like a treatment for alcoholism.
Gunthar2000
http://www.expaa.org/
Clara
Tue, 08/07/2012 - 15:36
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Because I happen to enjoy it,
Because I happen to enjoy it, Gunthar.
Remember Christopher Stevens when you vote.
Gunthar2000
Tue, 08/07/2012 - 15:40
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What exactly do you enjoy?
And why do you enjoy it so much?
AA is a religious cult dressed up to look like a treatment for alcoholism.
Gunthar2000
http://www.expaa.org/
Clara
Tue, 08/07/2012 - 15:43
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The same thing you do,
The same thing you do, Gunthar. Now, I am going to let you post away.
Remember Christopher Stevens when you vote.
Vicky345uk
Tue, 08/07/2012 - 15:53
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No recovery there
Then Clara. You enjoy being attacked and hated???? Jeeeze
Clara
Tue, 08/07/2012 - 15:58
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Vicky, I think you enjoy very
Vicky, I think you enjoy very much talking to me or you wouldn't seek me out for it. There is a choice there.
I cannot believe the amount of attention people would devote to someone they hated. Why let someone live in your head and devote the time to her that you (anyone) do? Live and let live is a great slogan, and I didn't even find it in AA.
Remember Christopher Stevens when you vote.
patti
Tue, 08/07/2012 - 17:34
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Clara you repeatedly rap live
Clara you repeatedly rap live & let live yet you come to this forum daily & try your best not to allow others to be anti aa. You do not allow this site to be about the dangers & truthful exposures regarding aa's miserable failure rates & the many people harmed by the cult. Is there every a moment or second of truthful clarity regarding self? Is there every even a second when you are not self deceptive & truthfully admit to yourself that you are a hypocrite & just do not practice what you preach? You appear over & over to be self absorbed but not self aware not in the slightest. Just another lost stepper lying to self & others. Its good that your here one & the same with the narcissist wilson. Its a daily reminder to keep not going back & to chose sanity & the real world instead!
patti
Gunthar2000
Tue, 08/07/2012 - 15:56
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Another non-answer
from Clara.
When the heat is on Clara clams up.
AA is a religious cult dressed up to look like a treatment for alcoholism.
Gunthar2000
http://www.expaa.org/
Clara
Tue, 08/07/2012 - 15:59
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It's very telling, Gunthar.
It's very telling, Gunthar. I also rarely clam up.
Remember Christopher Stevens when you vote.
patti
Tue, 08/07/2012 - 17:36
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Gunthar always when the heat
Gunthar always when the heat is on Clara & other stepper trolls here are well known for not answering. Same as in the cult! But its good they are here behaving as one & the same lost soul brain washed steppers who can't stop trying to hurt & control others for the cult! Losers.
patti
JR Harris
Tue, 08/07/2012 - 15:50
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You enjoy stalking AA prospects online Clara?
Clara, you definitely have a problem with stalking people online. Why don't you do something else? Are you going to the HUGE EVENT AND SIDEWALK SALE! CASA VIDA SALE... SATURDAY AUGUST 11, 2012 at 3501 Hueco St. , El Paso, TX 79903? The event is 8 am to 2 pm. FREE HOT DOGS!...after 11 am., All Items & Clothes MUST GO... Antique Furniture/Glassware & Utensils/Name Brand Shirts $1.00/Name Brand Jeans $2.00, Large Selection of Books $.25-$2.00 and it is being advertized by the El Paso Intergroup! http://www.aaelpaso.org/Events%20&%20Information.html
You can probably find tons of cheap AA books that all of the court mandated prospects gave away after they went to the required cult AA meetings, maybe even in Spanish! Then you can quit stalking online and go after the real thing in the rooms, meeting places, grocery stores, free clinics, probation and parole boards and you will have "Big Books" as bait!
"Tradition 10 - Alcoholics Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence the AA name ought never be drawn into public controversy." Please follow orders from the Interchurch Center if you are an AA member and don't comment.
Vicky345uk
Tue, 08/07/2012 - 15:55
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Great
Lol great JR
Clara
Tue, 08/07/2012 - 16:00
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It WAS great, huh, Vicky? JR
It WAS great, huh, Vicky? JR knows that I don't need some stinkin' free hot dog!
Remember Christopher Stevens when you vote.
First-Things-First (not verified)
Thu, 09/06/2012 - 03:58
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live_free_or_die
Tue, 08/07/2012 - 04:59
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duplicate
now there are two of you?
We do have a few of those here on the OPF. Some even come in triplicate, or more.
Alcoholics Anonymous: MyNotGodHasItCovered®
http://www.expaa.org/
http://bereanresearch.com/
http://badrecovery.blogspot.com/
NOT AA:
Rational Recovery, SOS, HAMS
http://alcoholabusesolutions.com/
NoAAUK
Mon, 08/06/2012 - 11:07
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Its the begining of the end
Its the begining of the end of the lying scaremongering predatory death cult.
Theres a long way still to go, but the end of steppism is coming
......and many false prophets will appear and deceive many people. Matthew 24:11
First-Things-First (not verified)
Thu, 09/06/2012 - 03:58
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NoAAUK
Mon, 08/06/2012 - 11:24
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Goodbye steppers Goodbye
Goodbye steppers Goodbye
We'll see you again....we don't know when......goodbye steppers goodbye
endgame
......and many false prophets will appear and deceive many people. Matthew 24:11
becket
Mon, 08/06/2012 - 23:47
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The beginning of the end?? I
The beginning of the end?? I thought you guys had this one.
Hahahahaha!
“The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Letters to a Young Contrarian
NoNonsense
Mon, 08/06/2012 - 11:34
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Basically, I am not the kind
Basically, I am not the kind of person who just believes everything I hear or read. The reason I "keep coming back" HERE is because a lot of what I read confirms the BS I have either experienced or heard about (from complaining groupies) while I was still in the program.
Ink
Mon, 08/06/2012 - 11:41
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It's sad about the reality.
It's sad about the reality. There is an old spy adage that goes "let them believe the lie."
For good or bad, each of us has to stand alone in some ways and trying to get everybody to "understand" isn't pragmatic.
YuppieMonkey
Mon, 08/06/2012 - 11:52
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Must Be Attraction, Not Promotion
"There must be a reason for that".
It must be that 'Aha!' moment when it all comes together and makes sense. Like when the economy crashed in 08. Before that you couldn't figure out how house prices could possibly be that high. Who could afford them? Aha! You see all the foreclosure signs and it all makes sense again.
I still love to keep up with the letters, and it amazes me when reading a deluded stepper letter you hear so much propaganda and superstition, or how angry or resentful Orange must be. The response Orange gives usually makes so much more sense, and it matches my experience with what AA 'REALLY' is.
And lets face it, even our trolls can't get away from here and just leave us be. They all claim how innocent they were coming here to find "other ways", but all they found is "hate". Yet none of them leave. They belong here with us, far, far away from any AA group. They are now ours, forever an example of being a 'lost soul'.
"You'll pay to know what you really think". - J.R. Bob Dobbs
First-Things-First (not verified)
Thu, 09/06/2012 - 03:58
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becket
Mon, 08/06/2012 - 23:45
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I didn't come here looking
I didn't come here looking for "another way". I had heard about the OPF and wanted to read it for myself. It was painted as a toxic environment - not just to AA but to critical thinking and independence.
It did not disappoint.
“The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Letters to a Young Contrarian
NoAAUK
Mon, 08/06/2012 - 23:52
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becket
"not just to AA but to critical thinking and independence."
AA and critical thinking and independence in the same sentance ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
If you are not driking, whats screwing your head up now? Thats the funniest statement you've posted to my knowledge LOL
......and many false prophets will appear and deceive many people. Matthew 24:11
live_free_or_die
Tue, 08/07/2012 - 05:01
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NoAAUK
Although the beckets statement of critical thinking and independence is a jewel, there have been bigger nuggets of larger value contributd by the judge.
Alcoholics Anonymous: MyNotGodHasItCovered®
http://www.expaa.org/
http://bereanresearch.com/
http://badrecovery.blogspot.com/
NOT AA:
Rational Recovery, SOS, HAMS
http://alcoholabusesolutions.com/
patti
Tue, 08/07/2012 - 15:35
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becket is there someone in
becket is there someone in your life holding a gun to your head to come to this forum daily? Why are you on this forum many times each day? Isn't this site for the purpose of deprogramming from aa brain washing? And for the purpose of avoiding aa's ineffectiveness & brain washing? I wonder if you could explain logically why you continue to participate daily on this forum if you consider it a toxic environment without critical thinking & independence? You have so many options & alternatives but you continue to chose this forum & try to control the members with the aa tactics of belittling their character defects & attacking anyone personally with a different opinion than yours regarding aa. So simple question if you consider this forum toxic & without critical thinking or independence why do you post on it daily & why do you read other members posts daily & then attack, criticize & belittle daily? Why don't you join a book club or take a writing course or join a garden club etc. etc., etc.? You have indicated many times that you consider your intelligence to be superior but here you are day after day with nothing better to do than attempt to control members on a internet forum. I already know that Mensa is not an option for you to join but isn't there some other type of social interaction for you that isn't toxic to you? As you well know I do not follow wilson's unqualified & anecdotal psycho babble but you do & aren't you adhering to his unqualified & illogical definition of "insanity" & repeating the same behavior & expecting a different result by participating on this forum daily? I know you won't respond to my questions & that's okay I'm used to steppers & I rejected & fled them but here you are on this forum daily. But that's okay too its good for deprogramming & for reenforcing that rejecting & fleeing the cult is a sane, healthy & good thing!
patti
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